Cooper Life Aims for Healthy Communities

DALLAS — Dr. Kenneth Cooper, founder of the Cooper Institute, is taking health and fitness to the home with a new residential community near Craig Ranch in McKinney, TX. Cooper will break ground in September on Cooper Life, a 51-acre, master-planned community valued at $1 billion. The new community will be anchored by the already existing 75,000-square-foot Cooper Aerobics Center. The community will combine the concepts of “new urbanism” and boutique medicine with the amenities of fitness-based living, says Cooper, who developed the concept with his son, Dr. Tyler Cooper.

Developed in partnership with Wellstone Communities, the community will include single-family cottages, town homes, brownstones, row houses and luxury mid-rise condominiums. It will feature easy access to outdoor exercise and stretching areas amid nature trails, gardens, parks and winding streams.